Quiche vs Frittata

So, are you a quiche person or a frittata person? Raise your hand if you don’t know the difference…

Quiche and frittata are both egg dishes made delicious with the addition of cheese, veggies, meat, seafood or poultry. They’re both great ways to get a meal on the table — they’re not just for breakfast anymore — relatively quickly using just about whatever you have on hand. Now here’s the difference.

Quiche is made by adding ingredients to a custard base, a combination of eggs and heavy cream, which gives it a deliciously creamy consistency when baked. Replace the cream with half and half or milk to cut the fat. Quiche usually has a crust, but it doesn’t have to.

Eggs get top-billing in a frittata. Frittatas have no crust and little, if any, milk or cream. Frittatas are cooked first on the stovetop, then finished in the oven or under the broiler.

[…] of a quiche that really makes it stand out from a souffle or frittata is the crust; however, as CookingClarified.com points out, quiches often have crust, but not always. In fact, I prefer mine […]

[…] (because I aint no body go time to be rolling pastry) which now in hindsight is just called a fritata? Either way I served this with some mashed potatoes, under-seasoned unfortunately but I was […]

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